And They Said It Wouldn't Last (My 50 Years in Music) | ||||
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Released | 15 September 2008 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Label | EMI | |||
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......And They Said It Wouldn't Last (My 50 Years in Music) is a commemorative box set released to celebrate Cliff Richard's fifty years in the music business. It was released on 15 September 2008. Its release was preceded on 8 September by a new single called "Thank You for a Lifetime" which doesn't appear in the set. The set includes eight CDs, a reproduction of Cliff's first single (a 10-inch 78rpm vinyl record of Move It/Schoolboy Crush), a 52-page photo book of Cliff's fifty years in music, and a gold-plated coin bearing the 'Cliff's 50 Anniversary' graphic. [1] [2] [3]
The package is divided into the eight disks
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